Era Milivojevic & Ana Cetkovic

Era Milivojevic was born in Uzice in 1944. He graduated from the Arts School in Novi Sad and studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade from 1965 to 1970. Milivojevic graduated in the class of professor Stojan Celic in 1971. Since 1989 he has been a member of ULUS.

Awards: Studio B Year Award for the best exhibition From April to April in 1995. The City of Belgrade October Award for fine arts in 1998.

Milivojevic presented his works in numerous exhibitions and performances.

Performance Departure=Return Andate=Return

The idea: When one lives in two places simultaneously (in my case those places are Belgrade – Milan) every departure is also a return. Question: When you ask for the time of return, it could be understood twofold – to Belgrade or to Milan? The main idea is for the act of arrival or return (an everyday performance) to become a performance. The airport, no-place, the place of transit becomes the venue of the performance, the passengers, passers by become the audience, and for just a moment the “art” becomes equal with the life. This of course in ironic sense. There are many keys as to how to read this, one of which could be of the sociology nature – the departure and the return of Serbs. But this performance would like to avoid the dramatic dilemma: here or there? Both here and there. It is my wish that my road to the airplane or entrance into the building is being shot (checking for the luggage, going through the customs) the whole ritual, at the end of which will be my intervention on the wall, the portraits of the passengers – audience. (An interesting folklore element could be two children dressed in the national costume).

The project is being continued with the idea of Era Milivojevic at the Kalemegdan Park.

Performance The King and the Queen

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